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	France, République française, embassy, embassies
		France, officially the French Republic (French: République française), is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.
		France is one of the founding members of the European Union, and has the largest land area of all members.
		France is also a founding member of the United Nations, and a member of La Francophonie, the G8, and the Latin Union.
	www.allembassies.com /france.html (1652 words)

	Weblog - Charles Bremner - Times Online: France
		France paused today to salute a great and beloved actor and for once the superlatives were justified.
		France 24, as it is called, was ordered into existence by Jacques Chirac in the acrimonious run-up to the Iraq war in early 2003.
		France, he decreed, must be a player in "the visual war" for the world's opinion.
	timescorrespondents.typepad.com /charles_bremner/france/index.html (7126 words)

	France and Mary, Queen of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whereupon Catherine curtly asked whether she knew that she was in the presence of the Queen of France.
		In those, she agreed to hand over Scotland to France should she die without an heir, to assign the revenues of Scotland to the King of France until he had recovered the money spent in defending that country and in the last, she renounced any agreement which contradicted the two declarations.
		Claude was married to the Duke of Lorraine, Elizabeth was married to Philip of Spain by proxy in June, and Margaret the King's sister, was affianced to the Duke of Lorraine.
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /France/France.htm (2599 words)

	Francis I of France Summary
		France itself was periodically invaded by the imperial armies during the wars.
		Young Francis was, by instigation of king Louis, in 1506 betrothed and in 1514 married, to Claude of France (1499-1524), the daughter of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany and heiress of Brittany.
		Because of the Salic Law that stated that women could not inherit the throne of France, the throne passed to Francis I at the death of Louis XII, as he was the descendant of the eldest surviving male line of the Capetian Dynasty.
	www.bookrags.com /Francis_I_of_France (3386 words)

	Louis XII of France Summary
		In 1514 Louis arranged the marriage of Claudia to Francis of Angoulême, a prince of the younger branch of the house of Orléans and heir apparent to the throne.
		After Louis’s predecessor Charles VIII, King of France died childless, this marriage was annulled in order to allow Louis to marry Charles’ widow, Anne of Brittany (1477-1514), the heiress and daughter of Francis I of Brittany in a strategy meant to ally the French Monarchy with the duchy of Brittany.
		Claude of France (1499 – 1524), later married to Francis I, King of France.
	www.bookrags.com /Louis_XII_of_France (1508 words)

	Claude of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claude of France (14 October 1499 – 20 July 1524), Queen consort of France and duchess of Brittany in her own right, was the eldest daughter of Louis XII, King of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany.
		As the first wife of Francis I, King of France, she was the mother of King Henry II, King of France, and thus grandmother of the last three kings of the Valois line and also of Elisabeth, Queen of Spain, Claude, Duchess of Lorraine, and Marguerite, the queen of Henry IV, King of France.
		Claude, the pawn of so much dynastic maneuvering, was short in stature and afflicted with scoliosis that gave her a small hunched back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queen_Claude_of_France (673 words)

	Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée): Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus (1997.156) \| Object Page \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The resulting painting, considered by Claude to be his most beautiful, was later largely destroyed by fire (a fragment survives at Holkham Hall, England).
		Claude here depicts the Old Testament story of Queen Esther, who went to the king's palace to implore mercy for her condemned people.
		By choosing instead the moment of Esther's approach to the palace, which is not described in the biblical text, Claude has shifted the focus from the clemency of the king to Esther's act of bravery when its outcome was still unclear.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ho/09/eusts/hod_1997.156.htm (290 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Claude de la Colombiere
		In 1674 Father de la Colombière was made superior at the Jesuit house at Paray-le-Monial, where he became the spiritual director of Blessed Margaret Mary and was thereafter a zealous apostle of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
		While awaiting his recall to France he was suddenly arrested and thrown into prison, denounced as a conspirator.
		Thanks to his title of preacher to the Duchess of York and to the protection of Louis XIV, whose subject he was, he escaped death but was condemned to exile (1679).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/16026b.htm (371 words)

	United Kingdom Heads of State with pictures
		When he went to France on warfare she was appointed regent and led the English troops against the invading Scots at the Battle of Flodden (in Northumberland) and, afterwards, sent over to her husband, in Flanders, a grim reminder of her achievements there: the blood-stained tunic of dead James IV of Scots.
		In 1520, however, the she went to France alongside Henry and was present at the great meeting of the 'Field of the Cloth of Gold'.
		She was daughter of Queen Isabel I of Castilla and Ferdinand of Aragón and initially heir to her father, but her sister, Juana La Loca, inherited both Countries.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/United_Kingdom.htm (8014 words)

	France, Navarre, Béarn and Andorra
		In the end, Jeanne was acknowledged as queen of Navarre, and the kingdoms separated, with Navarre passing to her descendants of the Évreux family.
		Their daughter Claude de France succeeds her mother in 1514 and is married the same year to the heir presumptive, who becomes king as François I in 1515.
		In January 1789, when the Estates General of France were called, an order was sent to Navarre for the election of representatives to that assembly: the order was rejected by the Estates of Navarre, and the king sent an "invitation" to the Estates to send its representatives to the king in Versailles.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/navarre.htm (2161 words)

	United Kingdom Heads
		As accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth, she became queen after the death of Guithelin and ruled as regent for her son, Sisillius.In her youth, she was the Queen consort of Guithelin, the king of Britain, but at his death, her son was only seven so she ruled in his stead.
		Her sister Marguerite was married to Louis IX of France, Sanchia to Richard, Earl of Cornwall and the youngest Beatrice to Charles, Count d'Anjou.
		The daughter of Queen Elizabeth's late cousin, the Duke of Kent, she acted as Counsellor of State during the minority of the closest heirs to the throne, and among others special representative of the Queen at the independence Celebrations of Nigeria in 1960 and Saint Lucia 1979.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /united_kingdom_heads.htm (4275 words)

	Cults in France
		The importance from the means available to a certain number of sectarian associations, to which the documents given to the Members of the Commission testify in particular of the luxury of their activities, incontestably comes to reinforce the capacity of attraction of the sects and to augment the effectiveness of the recruitment techniques used.
		The Humana France movement (schools TVIND) thus has as doctrines humanitarian aid (primarily devoted to the victims of famine, war, disease, catastrophes), assistance with promotion of projects in the Third World and studies aiming at contributing to research on the causes of poverty and suffering.
		For those, Man is formed of three principles (the physical one, the astral one, and the divine one) whose balance was broken, and that it is advisable to restore by initiation, which makes it possible to restore a link between the visible one and the invisible one, what one perceives and what escapes the senses.
	cftf.com /french/Les_Sectes_en_France/cults.html (14821 words)

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		In France, and that, too, during the most serious epoch of modern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine de' Medici; whereas Marie de' Medici, all of whose actions were prejudicial to France, has escaped the shame which ought to cover her name.
		The queens of France, on becoming widows, were required to remain in the king's chamber forty days without other light than that of wax tapers; they did not leave the room until after the burial of the king.
		As the object of the queen mother's regard, and permitted to pay his court to her as court is paid to a queen, very secretly, he seemed destined to play an important role, and Catherine did, in fact, resolve to use him.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/8/5/1854/old/ctdmd10.txt (18445 words)

	Metisse Music <Music Publishing in Paris, France> - Claude Chalhoub
		Seemingly, his self-taught technique was good enough to meet academical standards, because at the age of eighteen he was awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Scholarship, which enabled him to pursue his studies at the Royal College of Music in London, under the tutorship of Professor Grigory Zhislin and later Rodney Friend.
		In 1999, Claude was invited to Weimar in Germany to join the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
		Claude’s improvisation attracted so much attention that he was offered a recording contract with Warner Brothers.
	www.metisse-music.com /pages/content/artist.php?headerID=178 (537 words)

	Angoumois (Traditional province, France) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		François I was the root of the house of Valois-Orléans-Angoulême, who ruled France until the death of Henri III in 1589.
		Marguerite was also queen of Navarre and the grand-mother of king of France Henri IV.
		The last Dauphin of France, Louis de Bourbon (1775-1844), son of King Charles X, wore the title of duke d'Angoulême, since the Bourbon kings had reestablished the system of apanage after the 1815 Restauration.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr-angou.html (343 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Claude Challe CD contest Aug. 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		French DJ Claude Challe is an idiosyncratic figure in today's musical landscape, a catalyst and visionary who started as a counterculture figure in the 1960s and has been on the cutting edge of youth fashion ever since.
		All have proved immensely popular in France, and Challe now not only hangs out with celebrities but gets hired to DJ at events like Celine Dion's wedding and promote the Dalai Lama's Parisian appearances.
		Having left the Buddha Bar, he is currently working on a project which involves him directing musicians to make specific Claude Challe music which he hopes to follow with a circus tour and a spiritual autobiography.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/02challecontest.html (668 words)

	Duchy of Brittany: Ducal banners (part 4)
		The son of François I and Claude de France was Dauphin and duke of Brittany (1532-1536).
		In 1532 the union of France with Brittany was definitive.
		Henri, François' brother, became Dauphin in 1536 and was crowned duke of Brittany in 1537.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr-bz-d3.html (239 words)

	Mary Tudor (queen consort of France) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary Tudor (March 18, 1496 – June 25, 1533) was the younger sister of Henry VIII of England and queen consort of France due to her marriage to Louis XII.
		He named his daughter, the future Queen Mary, after her and the warship Mary Rose was also named in his sister's honour.
		She is also the subject of the novels Mary, Queen of France by Jean Plaidy, The Reluctant Queen by Molly Costain Haycraft, and Princess of Desire by Maureen Peters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Tudor_(queen_consort_of_France) (688 words)

	France Cruises - Deluxe RiverBoats
		Enjoy the romantic charm of France's Provence, Avignon, Beaujolais and Burgundy regions as you cruise aboard the 4-star Princesse de Provence.
		Visit the beloved impressionist painter Claude Monet's home in Giverny, stroll through half-timbered houses in Rouen and revel in the grandeur of Paris.
		MV Cezanne offers a choice of queen bedded cabins in addition to the usual twins, and MV Princesse de Provence sports upper deck staterooms with full length French Doors instead of windows.
	www.francecruises.com /riverboats.htm (664 words)

	The French Royal Family: A Genealogy
		The main emphasis of this genealogy is to highlight titles and coats of arms in the French royal family, with an eye to marks of difference (see also the page on titles and apanages).
		Louis of France (1339-83), duc d'Anjou: France ancient a bordure gules, adopted 1380 by Queen Giovanna I of Naples, King of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem 1382: per pale Jerusalem and per pale Naples (France a label gules) and Anjou (France a bordure gules) (N) Marie, comtesse de Blois et de Guise (1343-1404)
		Louis XI had natural children, of which Jeanne (1519), dame de Mirebeau, was legitimated in 1465 and married to Louis, bâtard de Bourbon; Marie, married to Aymar de Poitiers and from whom Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II, is descended.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/roygenea.htm (6851 words)

	French Cooking at Epicurious.com
		Pale green and dusted with blue, about the size of a walnut, a ripe, tender Reine Claude offers the perfect balance of melting internal sweetness balanced by slight acidity from the skin.
		Most fruit in France is ambrosial, it's true, from white peaches with their delicate perfume, to golden nectarines with their intense peach-like flavor, to apricots so rich and sweet they taste like honey.
		Many of those Reine Claude purchased in quantity, particularly the softest ripe ones, are destined for tarts, jam, or jelly.
	www.epicurious.com /features/letters_from_france/collections/plum (519 words)

	France Quotes
		France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.
		The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.
		One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs.
	www.worldofquotes.com /topic/France/1/index.html (238 words)

	Blois
		Twenty five years later François I built a renaissance wing, the one facing us, with the unique open circular staircase in the middle.
		After his queen, Claude de France, died there François I never came to Blois again, and it became just another castle in the royal estates.
		The Salamander is the emblem of François I. The throne room.
	www.peacham.com /france/blois.htm (716 words)

	France Kralj ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), Daughter of Charles IV of France, 14th century Jean
		Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun - Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France c.
		Joos van Cleve, Portrait of Francis I of France, circa 1530
	wwar.com /masters/k/kralj-france.html (481 words)

	Queen of France :: France
		This town had three huge churches, one modern like church (really odd looking) and was the place were Joan of Arc was killed.
		These little trains are in most of the tourist cities in France.
		These are some carving in a courtyard that is a memorial for people who died of the fl plague in France.
	www.freewebs.com /queenoffrance/pagetwothenorth.htm (871 words)

	H-France Review
		In what is an extremely well-argued and articulated study, Pidduck makes a case for a comprehensive rereading of the film that has drawn critical reviews and controversy since its first appearance in theatre.
		In the long run, male homosocial coupling (either sexual or in violent massacre scenes) dominates the film to the detriment of the heterosexual intrigue that achieves a limited amount of screen time.
		In her last section of the book, the author explores the reception and pre-publicity campaign surrounding the making of the film, its release, as well as its post-production alterations for the American market.
	www.h-france.net /vol6reviews/blumreid.html (1136 words)

	AvenueFrance - French Culture
		Not only queen of France, she was also the mother of 3 other French kings: François II, Charles IX and Henri III.
		She had the Palace of the Tuileries built, as well as the chateâu of Monceaux and continued the construction of the Louvre.
		Emblem of Queen Claude of France, wife of François I
	www.avenuefrance.com /culture.htm (822 words)

	France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An even blend of Celtic, Latin, and Teutonic populations, the French have created a major civilization whose relationship to the land seems to be one of mutual symbiosis.
		It should be noted that although the list indicates the end of English pretension in France in 1453, a year which marks the effective end of the Hundred Years War, successive English sovereigns continued to include the title "King (or Queen) of France" until 1801.
		This tale has grown in the telling, and is nowadays often encountered as one element in a cycle of stories which attempt to connect the Merovingian dynasts with threads of mystical Christian heritage.
	www.hostkingdom.net /france.html (1281 words)

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